Reseña del libro "The Author (en Inglés)"
Meet Lennie Brandack, a true loser. A textbook sociopath, he suffers through a dead-end postal job, but never loses sight of his dreams of fame and fortune. Amoral and dangerously clever, he violates the trust he accepted a decade ago when getting this first paying job. And while he never gives up on his quest to be a published author, he eventually comes to terms with the realization that he won't make it on his own merits, so devises a scheme to steal the works of others.Enter Jack Nickels, who is throwing away an enormous talent, and seems destined to die in the exile he's created. A widower, he enjoyed a brilliant career in journalism, writing prodigiously right up until his wife's death. As a catharsis, he writes about that, then loses himself to his weakness for alcohol. Trying to numb himself from his pain, and speed his own end, he is well on the way to succeeding - that is until his path crosses with Lennie. Unable to escape from the suffocating presence of his work now claimed by another, he crawls out of the stupor to wreak the revenge needed to quiet his rage.The Author explores the consequences of blind ambition driven by what is rationalized by Lennie as a small crime. It delves into the subsequent retaliation of a man pulling back from the brink. It tells how quickly anything can get so out of control that the trail of deceit takes on a life of its own. A government employee, entrusted to serve, steals what he needs to weave the kind of life he wants for himself, but cannot achieve. A gifted former journalist, swimming in the bottom of a bottle of escape, falls victim, and the house-of-cards comes tumbling down, as he seeks to crawl out of his misery and extract justice.It's a story that pulls innocent lives into the vortex of violence, and turns quiet people into murderous avengers. No one goes untouched in this suspenseful thriller that begins with the simplest premise, and ends with a shocking twist.
